Today we are going to perform an illustration that will teach you some of environment and structure building techniques. This illustration can be done with a mere mouse, so let's get started.

adobe photoshop illustration

We've created a new document and a layer.

Now, overlay the layer with basic black to white gradient. As you've notice I like to this. It gives me basic light direction and highlight\shadow balance.

adobe photoshop illustration

Choose a brush to paint with.

adobe photoshop illustration

I will pick a large diameter # 216 or 218.

Don't. forget to create a layer before painting something.

adobe photoshop illustration

As my brush has some king o form and even little texture I'll ust make several strokes.

adobe photoshop illustration
 




adobe photoshop illustration



adobe photoshop illustration

Here we have it. As you can see it already has some highlighted and shadow areas.

I will flip my image and do some more painting.

adobe photoshop illustration

I‘ve basically made no changes comparing to previous stage.

Now I want you to create a new layer.

adobe photoshop illustration

Select another brush. I will use any flat brush. I will rotate this brush a lot to match the edges of my image.

adobe photoshop illustration



adobe photoshop illustration